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OF THE 

FIRST ANNUAL REUNION, 



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NOBRISTOWN, PA., Sept. 17, 1880. 



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The surviving members of the Fifty-first Regiment 
Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers, held their first annual 
reunion at Norristown, September 17, 1880. 

The Veterans assembled at Zook Post Room, at nine 
o'clock, and after the Norristown Cornet Band had played 
a dirge in front of the monument in the public square^ a 
procession was formed on Main street, right resting on 
Swede, and under the command of General William J. 
Bolton, proceeded to Globe Park. 

The members of the regiment wore red badges, on 
which was inscribed " Society Fifty-first Regiment Penn- 
sylvania Veteran Volunteers, Ninth Army Corps." The 
guests wore blue badges. Many houses were decorated 
in honor of the occasion. Six of the old battle-flags of 
the regiment were carried in the procession, Company 
"F," Sixth Regiment National Guard, acting as escort. 

The procession moved to the Park by the way of Swede 
and Marshall streets. At the Park, the dining-room of 
the hotel was handsomely decorated with a large number 
of American flags, and nine tables had been spread, capa- 
ble of seating three hundred guests. 



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ment, and the companies from other parts of the State 
were thrown into the left wing. By request of your 
President, I bid the left wing a hearty welcome here to- 
day. It was remarkable how the regiment became uni- 
fied, without reference to locality. 

Continuing, the speaker gave a number of reminis- 
cences of the war, and the battle of Antietam. In con- 
clusion, he said : 

"Now the right wing of this regiment, from this 
county, greets the left wing from different parts of the 
State. [Applause.] It also greets our comrades who 
have served in other commands, and one that was as 
much perhaps, or nearly so, and perhaps more a Mont- 
gomery county regiment than even the Fifty-first. I 
refer to the gallant One Hundred and Thirty-eighth. 
We welcome them. We welcome all. We welcome the 
citizens. We are glad to see you all, and hope that we 
may be able to meet in the future from year to year, and 
see your faces as we see them to day, pleasant and smil- 
ing." 

Three cheers were given for General Hartranft. 

The Secretary read the minutes of the previous meet- 
ings: 

NoRRiSTOWN, March 21, 1880. 

In pursuance to a notice, a meeting was held by the 
members of the late Fifty-first Regiment Pennsylvania 
Veteran Volunteers, to take steps for forming a regiment- 
al association. 

General William J. Bolton was called to the chair, and 
Edward Schall was chosen Secretary. 



FIFTY-FIRST REGIMENT. 7 

On motion of Comrade Schall, the chairman was in- 
structed to procure copies of the constitution and by-laws 
of similar organizations, and submit them to a future 
meeting. 

General Bolton stated that General Hartranft had in 
his possession two or three hundred copies of the "His- 
tory of the Fifty-first," and had agreed to give one copy 
to each member joining the association, and paying what- 
ever initiation fee might be decided upon. 

The chairman was instructed to appoint a committee 
to ascertain, so far as possible, the address of all surviving 
members of the regiment, and notify them of the action 
taken. Also, to set the time and place for another 
meeting. 

On motion adjourned, to meet at the call of the chair- 
man. 

William J. Bolton, 
Edward Schall, President. 

Secretary. 



NoRRisTOWN, May 25, 1880. 

The meeting was called to order by the chairman, who 
announced that the object of the meeting was to adopt a 
constitution and by-laws for the government of the or- 
ganization. 

Comrades Edward Schall, William W. Owens, and 
John Gilligan, of the Committee on Constitution and By- 
Laws, submitted the following : 



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CONSTITUTION. 
Article I. 

This association shall be known as the "Society of 
the Fifty-first Regiment Pennsylvania Veteran Volun- 
teers." 

Article II. 

Every member of the Fifty-first Regiment Pennsylvania 
Veteran Volunteers, who was honorably discharged, or 
who remains in the regular service of the United States, 
shall be entitled to membership in this society, upon sub- 
scribing to its constitution and by-laws^ and paying the 
fee therein specified. 

Article III. 

The object of the society is to perpetuate the history 
of the above command to which its members were at- 
tached; and whilst cherishing the hunored memory of 
those of their comrades who fell in the cause of their 
country, it shall be its endeavor, by an annual reunion, 
to promote and preserve among the survivors the feeling 
of friendship and good-fellowship for which they have 
hitherto been distinguished. 

Article IV. 

The officers of this society shall consist of a President, 
Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer, who shall be 
elected annually, at the regular meeting. A majority of 
the members present shall have the power to elect their 



FIFTY-FIRST REGIMENT. g 

officers. The President, at each annual meeting, shall 
appoint an Executive Committee, consisting of one from 
each company and one at large, for the ensuing year, 
whose duty it shall be to make the proper arrangement 
for the next meeting of the society. 

Article V. 

The regular meetings shall take place not oftener than 
once a year, and at such time and place as may be deter- 
mined by a majority of the members, at the regular meet- 
ing next preceding. 

Members will be expected to attend the regular meet- 
ings, or if unable to do so, will give the Secretary timely 
notice, in writing, of their inability, and its cause. 

Article VI. 

Any member who shall be in arrears for dues for a 
period of three years shall have his name dropped from 
the rolls until his dues shall be paid, or they be remitted 
by a vote of the society. 

Article VII. 

Honoring the achievements of their brothers-in-arms, 
this society authorizes the President or Executive Com- 
mittee to invite to its meetings any persons who have 
served with distinction in the army or navy of the United 
States. 



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BY-LAWS. 
Article I. 

An initiation fee of twenty-five cents, and an annual 
fee of twenty-five cents, shall be paid by each member 
to the Secretary, and by him to the Treasurer. 

Article II. 

Money, for the necessary expenses of the society, may 
be expended by the Treasurer, upon the approval of the 
President. 

Article III. 

The Treasurer sliall make a report to the annual meet- 
ing of all receipts and expenditures, with vouchers. 

Article IV. 

The Secretary shall report to every meeting all corre- 
spondence of general interest. 

Article V. 

All questions and resolutions shall be decided by a 
majority of the members present. But amendments to 
the Constitution shall require the assent of two thirds of 
the members present at a regular meeting. 

Article VI. 

In the meeting of this society, tlie members thereof 
shall be designated as Comrades. 



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Article VII. 

The order of business shall be as follows : 

1. Reading the journal of the previous meeting. 

2. Appointment of committees on business, and for 
nomination of officers. 

3. Receiving reports. 

4. Current business. 

5 . Election of officers. 

6. Adjournment. 

An election of officers, to serve until the next annua^ 

meeting, was then held, with the following result : 

President — William J. Bolton. 

Vice President — M. L. Schock. 

Secretary — Edward Schall. 

Treasurer — William W. Owens. 

The meeting adjourned, to meet at the call of the 

President. 

William J. Bolton, 

Edward Schall, President. 

Secretary. 



Norristown, August 10, 1880. 

Met at the office of Comrade Schall, General Bolton 
in the chair. 

The following Executive Committee was appointed, 
to wit: Adjutant Jacob H. Santo, Captain J. Merrill 
Linn, Captain John A. Gillilland, Captain Henry Jacobs, 
Lieutenant John Genther, Lieutenant John Gilligan, 
Lieutenant Lewis Patterson, Sergeant Isaac E. Fillman, 



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Sergeant John C Dittler, Corporal Samuel Egolf, and 

Private Joseph A. Logan. 

On motion, it was decided to hold the first annual re- 
union in Norristown, on Friday, September 17, I880, 
the eighteenth anniversary of the battle of Antietam. 

The chairman announced that Captain J. Merrill Linn 
would deliver an oration, and Honorable George N. 
Corson a poem, at the reunion on the 17th instant. 

William J. Bolton, 
Edward Schall, President. 

Secretary. 



Norristown, August 24, 1880. 

Met at Comrade Schall's office, in the court-house. 

The President appointed the following committee to 
make the necessary arrangements for the reunion of the 
regiment : Sergeant Isaac E. Fillman, Corporal Daniel 
Lare, Lieutenant John Gilligan, Corporal Andrew Fair, 
Captain Henry Jacobs, Samuel Daub, Samuel McCarter, 
Samuel Taylor, Lieutenant Lewis Patterson, and Aman- 
dus Gargus. They are also authorized to collect funds. 

On motion, the Norristown Cornet Band was engaged 
to play at the reunion. 

On motion, the services of Company " F," Sixth Reg- 
iment Pennsylvania National Guard, for escort duty at 
the reunion, were accepted. 



On motion adjourned. 

lLL, 

Secretary. 



William J. Bolton, 
Edward Schall, President. 



FIFTY-FIRST REGIMENT. 13 

The following committee was appointed on nomination 
of officers : William H. Yerkes, Theodore Gilbert, Wil- 
liam W. Owens, M. L. Schock, and John Genther. They 
reported : 

President — William J. Bolton. 

Vice President — M. L. Schock. 

Secretary — Edward Schall. 

Treasurer — W. )V. Owens. 

Their report was unanimously approved. 

It was decided to hold the next annual reunion at 
Lewisburg, Pa., on September 14, 1881, the anniversary 
of the battle of South Mountain. 

The Secretary read the following letters: 

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 

Executive Chamber, 
Harrisburg, September 13, 1880. 
General William J. Bolton, 

Norristown, Pa: 
Dear Sir : I am directed by the Governor to inform 
you that his engagements are such as to prevent his ac- 
ceptance of your kind invitation to attend the first re- 
union of the Fifty-first Regiment Pennsylvania Veteran 
Volunteers, to be held at Globe Park, Norristown^ on 
Friday, September 17, 1880. 

Very truly yours, 

Warren B. Keely, 

Executive Clerk. 
Bellefonte, Sepetmber 13, 1880. 
Gentlemen : Please accept my thanks for your invi- 



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tation to tlie reunion of the Fifty-first Regiment Pennsyl- 
vania Veteran Volunteers, on the 17th of September. 

Rest assured it would give me much pleasure to meet 
the survivors of that gallant regiment, but it is quite im- 
possible for me to leave my home this week. 

With my best wishes for a good time to all present, 
I remain truly your friend, 

A. G. CURTIN. 

Major General Hartranft, Major General Bolton, and 
others. 



Mentor, Ohio, September 11, 1880. 
General W. Bolton, 

Norristown^ Pa. : 

Dear Sir : I have received yours of the 9th instant, 

inviting me to attend your reunion on the 17th instant, 

but my engagements render it impossible for me to be 

with you at that time. Regretting this, 

I am very truly yours, 

T. A, Garfield. 



Governor's Island, New York Harbor, 

August 31, 1880. 
Dear Sirs : I am in receipt of your invitation of the 
2d instant, and, while thanking you for the courtesy ex- 
tended to me, regret that I shall be unable to leave my 
post of duty at the time indicated for the reunion. With 
best wishes, I am very truly yours, 

WiNFiELD S. Hancock. 
General J. F. Hartranft, General W. J. Bolton, and 
others. 



FIFTY-FIRST REGIMENT. 15 

Edgehill, Bristol, R. L, September 4, 1880. 
My Dear General : I have delayed answering your 
kind invitation to meet my old comrades of the gallant 
Fifty-first on the 17th instant, in the hope that I might 
accept it, but much to my sorrow, I find it impossible to 
do so. Please present me, in great friendship, to our 
comrades and your good wile, and believe me, 
Faithfully your friend, 

A. E. BURNSIDE. 



Cincinnati, September 14, 1880. 
General William J. Bolton, 

Norristown, Pa. : 
Dear Sir : Your favor of the 30th of July, inviting me 
to attend the reunion of the Fifty-first Regiment Penn- 
sylvania Veteran Volunteers, at Norristown, on the 17th 
instant, received, and I very much regret that important 
business appointments in Michigan will prevent my being 
present on that important and interesting occasion. It 
would afford me much pleasure to meet my old friends 
and comrades, and assist them in establishing a society 
for the perpetuation of the history of the Fifty-first regi- 
ment, and at the same time to promote and strengthen 
the bonds of friendship and brotherhood among the 
members living. And, while speaking of ourselves, don't 
let us forget those of our members who died that the 
Nation might live. And let us renew our pledge that 
the principles for which they fought' and died must and 



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shall prevail. Wishing you all a pleasant and happy re- 
union, I remain 

Yours, very truly, 

J. W. Iredell, Jr. 
Enclosed find an application for membership and fee, 
twenty-five cents. 



Philadelphia, September i6, 1880. 
Generals John F. Hartranft, Willlam J. Bolton, and 
others. Committee : 

Gentlemen : I have the honor to acknowledge the re- 
ceipt of your polite invitation to participate in the re- 
union of the Fifty-first Regiment Pennsylvania Veteran 
Volunteers, and bancpiet attending the same, and I thank 
you most heartily. 

I always remember the old Fifty-first with feelings of 
warm connradeship. I can never forget how, at Antietam, 
when relieved by the Forty-eighth, on the crest overlook- 
ing Sharpsburg. the Fifty-first, although without a cart- 
ridge, bravely remained supporting the Forty-eighth, 
determined not to give up the hill without a trial of cold 
steel before yielding. 

I expected to be there, promising myself much pleas- 
ure, but I find now I cannot be present. Regretting 
this, and wishing you a delightful time, I am, truly and 
fraternally, 

Yours, 

O. C. Bosbyshell. 



FIFTY-FIRST REGIMENT. 17 

Fernandina, Fla., September 3, 18S0. 
Dear General: I received your invitation to attend 
a reunion of the Fifty-first Regiment Pennsylvania Vet- 
eran Volunteers, at Norristown, Pa., on the 17th instant, 
and should have been much pleased to meet my old com- 
rades on such an occasion. But previous to receiving 
your invitation, I had arranged to be present at the an- 
nual meeting of the " Society of the Army of the Cum- 
berland," at Toledo, Ohio, September 22. I enclose 
my application for membership, and hope every honora- 
bly discharged member of the old regiment will become 
a member of the society. Although not able to be with 
you in person on the 17th instant, I will be in spirit, and 
will recall to mind the noble old regiment as I saw it on 
the same date eighteen years before, as it charged and 
carried the Burnside bridge at Antietam, in its usual gal- 
lant style, but at such fearful cost of life and limb. Hop- 
ing to attend some future meetings, and with kindest 
regards to all, I remain, 

Very truly yours, 

J. C. Read. 
To General William J. Bolton, President Fifty-first 
Regiment Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers^ Norris- 
town, Pa. 



Grand Rapids, Mich., September 10, 1880. 
William J. Bolton, President Society Fifty-first Penn- 

Veteran Volunteers 'Norristown, Pa. : 
Dear Sir : Your invitation to attend a reunion of the 
above society on the 1 7th of this month, is received. I 



i8 FIRST ANNUAL REUNION. 

greatly regret that business engagements will prevent my 
attendance ; but while I cannot be with you personally 
on that day, I cannot forget your meeting, nor the day 
that celebrated the anniversary of one of the hardest 
fought battles of the late war, eighteen years ago, in 
which the old Fifty-first 'struck a blow that decided the 
day. 

Extend the hand of good fellowship to any of my old 
comrades who may be with you on the occasion of your 
meeting, and whilst recounting scenes of hard campaigns, 
tread lightly and shed silent tears over the graves of fallen 
comrades, who died to preserve a nation of which we are 
so proud to-day. 

I trust that these reunions may continue from year to 
year, until the last member of the society will have ans- 
wered to the final roll-call — Death. 

With my best wishes for the success of the meeting, 
believe me to be. 

Very truly yours, 

Henry B. Wetzell. 



Washington, September 13, 1880. 
General William J. Bolton, President Society of the 
Fifty-first Regiment Penfisylvania Veteran Volunteers: 
Dear General : Very much to my regret, I find it im- 
possible to be present at the reunion of the Fifty-first 
regiment on the 17th instant. If not asking too much 
for one who added so little to the honor and fame of the 
regiment, I would thank you to convey my hearty good 



FIFTY-FIRST REGIMENT. ig 

wishes to all comrades who may kindly bear me in re- 
membrance. 

During the brief period of life remaining to us, it is 
certainly very proper that the survivors of the Fifty-first 
regiment should muster annually to revive cherished 
memories, and to strengthen friendships which can never 
die. We should muster under the old flag, dear to every 
loyal heart, to renew the vows of perpetual allegiance to 
our common country. 

The day you have selected for the first annual meeting, 
the anniversary of the battle of Antietam, could not be 
more opportune. On that day we again hear, above the 
wild crash, with the same thrilling sensations, the voice 
of the aid-de-camp saying to the brave Sturgis : "Gen- 
eral Burnside calls upon Colonel Hartranft and the Fifty- 
first Pennsylvania to take the stone bridge at all hazards." 
On that day we can renew affectionate memories for the 
honored dead, and on that day we can renew our warm 
sympathy for all those who walk cheerfully through life, 
maimed and disabled, that the nation might live. 

Anticipating for you a successful and happy reunion, I 
remain, 

Very truly, your comrade, 

H. C. Wood. 



New York, September 13, 1880. 
My Dear General : Your kind letter of the 2d in- 
stant has just reached me. I thank you and the members 
of the Fifty-first Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers for 
their kind remembrance. I regret exceedingly that busi- 



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ness engagements of great importance preclude the pos- 
sibility of my accepting their kind invitation for the 17th 
instant. Say to them, dear general, that the many ex- 
ploits of bravery performed by the old regiment are al- 
ways first in my memory. 

Yours, respectfully, 

E. W. Fehreko. 
General J. F. Hartranft. 



Flushing, L. I., September 11, 1880. 
My Brothers in Arms : 

Df.ar Comrades: I acknowledge the receipt of >our 
kind invitation to be with you on the 17th, and also the 
postal wishing me to become a member of your society, 
which I will do heartily, but sorry I can't be with you at 
your reunion. 

I never will forget the Fifty-first above all other regi- 
ments that were offered to support the battery, and by 
your invitation I see you have not forgotten the Thirty- 
fourth, 

The Fifty-first and Thirty-fourth, together with the 

Ninth Corps, stood a unit through shot and shell, from 

the Wilderness to the taking of Petersburg. At Antietam, 

especially, I remember the bravery of the Fifty-first. 

The charge that was made by the Ninth Corps at the 

stone bridge was grand. e(|ual to the famous charge of 

Napoleon at the l^ridge of Lotli. Such bravery as our 

boys exhibited is rarely known. 

Jacob Rumer, 

Late Captain T,^tfi Battery, and Brevet Major (J.S. V. 



FIFTY-FIRST REGIMFXT. zi 

The present Executive Committee was continued. Its 
members are : Adjutant Jacob H. Santo, Captain J. Mer- 
rill Linn, Captain John R. Gillilland, Captain Henry 
Jacobs, Lieutenant John H. Genther, Lieutenant John 
Gilligan, Lieutenant Lewis Patterson, Sergeant Isaac E. 
Fillman, Sergeant John C. Dettler, Corporal Samuel 
Egolf, and Private Joseph A. Logan. 

On motion, the Vice President, M. L. Schock, was re- 
quested to appoint an auxiiliary committee from members 
of tlie regiment residing in and near Lewisburg. 

He announced the following committee: M. G. Reed, 
John V. Rule, B. B. Harris, Albert List, J. P. Brooke, 
D. H. Getz, Charles Schnure, William F. Campbell, and 
David Brewer. 

On motion of General Hartranft, the proceedings of 
the annual meeting, with the names and residences of 
the members present, were ordered to be printed in 
pamphlet form. 

The following closing prayer was offered by the Rev- 
erend H. M. Kieffer, pastor of the " Church of the As- 
cension," Norristown, Pennsylvania : 

Almighty God, Our Heavenly Father, we give Thee 
most hearty thanks and praise for the goodness and mercy 
we have enjoyed at Thy hand this day. We acknowledge 
with gratitude our dependence upon Thee, and thank 
Thee that Thou hast preserved our lives, and permitted 
us to meet here this day in health and strength, to revive 
old memories and to renew the friendships formed in the 
dark and terrible days of the past. To Thy mercy it is 
we owe our lives : for it was by Thy strong hand that all 



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of US were delivered, in the years gone by, from the ter- 
ror by night and from the arrow that flyeth by day. It 
was of Thy mercy that neither the pestilence that walketh 
in darkness, nor the destruction that wasteth at noonday, 
came nigh unto us : and that while a thousand fell at our 
side and ten thousand at our right hand, yet have we been 
permitted to live long in the land the Lord, our God, hath 
given us. We thank Thee for the kind Providence which 
has been over us during the years that have elapsed since 
those dark days of the war ; and we pray Thee that, as 
Thou hast been with us in the past, both in war and in 
peace, so also Thou wilt be gracious unto us in all future 
time. Crown wiih Thy favor and blessing, we beseech 
Thee, the exercises of this day : watch over us through- 
out life, and when life's warfare is ended, and its fitful 
fever past, grant unto us all that great peace which passeth 
all understanding, through Jesus Christ, our Lord and 
Redeemer, Amen. 



FIFTY-FIRST RFGIMENT. 23 

At one o'clock the comrades re-assembled for dinner, 
at the hotel. After dinner, Captain J. Merrill Linn de- 
livered the following oration : 

CAPTAIN LINN'S ORATION. 

An eventful life often comes from seeming chance. In 
looking back over it, we can see the turn where, by a 
handsbreadth, it might have gone with us a thousand 
other ways — it is idle to speculate how — it is enough if 
only, in after years, we can recall it with pride and with 
pleasure. 

One day in November, 1861, Colonel Hartranft and 
Lieutenant Colonel Bell — peace be to his ashes ! whose 
gifted soul on this day, eighteen years ago, sped on its 
flight to its home beyond the blue light, 

" And we know 
A solemn joy, that one wliosc manhood glow 
Faded so soon, should die to mark how grand, 
Above all fleeting life, to die for Native land." 

Our colonel and lieutenant colonel went into Gov- 
ernor Curtin's room at the capitol, and announced that 
the regiment was full, and they were ready to march. 

The Governor said there was an expedition fitting out, 
called the Coast Division, and he would telegraph to 
Thomas A. Scott, then Assistant Secretary of War. for a 
place in it. 

An order came, and on the night of the i8th of No- 
vember, 1 86 1, in the broad fall moonlight, beneath the 
wide-spreading ancient elms of St. John's College, at 
Annapolis, Maryland, we piled our arms. 



24 FIRST ANNUAL REUNION. 

A fateful move ! Our life became one with that of an 
army corps, whose armed tread was heard upon the reedy 
shores of the old North State ; whose bronzed faces and 
stalwart arms stayed an exmtant foe from Cedar Mount- 
ain to the Potomac ; whose sudden push won the stone 
bridge at Antietam ; who spared not their blood on the 
slopes of Fredericksburg ; who sustained the arm of their 
gallant commander when he issued the famous order No. 
38 ; who shared in the capture of Vicksburg ; who, in 
the morning light of that lovely July day, unfurled their 
flags and deployed their columns on the hills about Jack- 
son; that from the bridge at Lenoir, by Cambell's sta- 
tion, to the fort crowned hills of Knoxville, baffled and 
held at bay the famous corps of Longstreet ; that crossed 
the Rapidan on the 4th of May, 1864, and went by the 
way of the Wilderness Court House, and Cold Harbor, 
where fell our gallant Schall, across the James ; that held 
so long the lines of Petersburg, where, in that last grand, 
final rush, when the Fifty- first, under Bolton, held the 
brigade line at Fort Steadman, and crowned the crest of 
the crater, where eighteen months before they suffered so 
much, and pierced the lines that so long held our armies 
at bay. That you were among this armed throng ; that 
you bore yourselves up proudly to meet the coming 
fight ; that you stood staunchly by when the death shot 
fell thick and fast, when the crashing shell broke through 
the serried column, and the sheeted lead withered the steady 
ranks ; that through the midnight march, through the 
pelting rain and sleeting snow, you gathered your numbers 
with unfailing strength, and hearts that never quailed; 



FIFTY-FIRSr REGIMENT. 25 

that you carried your colors to the end, and placed them 
again in the hands that gave them to you, not, indeed, 
with the fresh crimson flush and unstained azure hue of 
their newly born beauty, but rent and torn from the 
fields of many battles ; may now well kindle the eye, 
may well now mantle the cheek with blood from a([uicker 
heart's pulse at their rememl)rance. 

But as the Fifty-first regiment of Pennsylvania rises 
higher than its individual life in its place in the Ninth 
Army Corps, and still higher in its place in the Grand 
Army of the Republic, it is still higher and grander in its 
place in the world's progress. 

If there is one thing more clearly taught than another 
in the history of mankind, in all its records, sacred and 
profane, it is that every material step toward freedom, 
freedom of the body, freedom of the mind, freedom of 
the soul, is worked out in blood. The history of the 
liberal party, in every progressive nation, is written in 
blood. It is one of continued strife and struggle. It is 
necessarily aggressive. Not that it is in its soul blood- 
thirsty ; not that it is in itself turbulent, ur in its Iieart 
discontented, but that this is the price that must be paid 
for freedom to act in such a way as to have secure life, 
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. 

Oppression and wrong are conservative. Old forms of 
life, having served the purpose for which they were crea- 
ted, are taken possession of by the tireless spirit of evil, 
which never quits its watch upon the effort of the human 
race to better itself. That which once helped, now be- 
comes its bonds, and again ar.d again it must rise in its 



26 FIRST AXXi'AL RFA'XIOX. 

might and burst them asunder. Oppression and wronfj 
do not let go easily. If they must quit, they turn and 
rend their victim, and leave him prostrate, though free, 
like the demon of old. 

Right is higher than life ; therefore the soldier battles 
for it. There is no prouder place among men, than that 
of the citizen soldier. 

It is for no idle romance that the heart beats with 
quicker pulse at the roll of the drum ; that the bugle-call 
starts the blood in a swifter current : that the soul rises 
when the ear catches the sound of the tread of armed 
men. The dancing plume, the bayonet glittering in the 
sunlight, the flash of the saber and the rattle of the car- 
bine, the clash of the musket, the jingle of the spur, the 
ring of the iron hoof on the stony road, the roar of the 
artillery, the streaming guidon and waving flag, the gilded 
trappings, all that pomp of the moving column have their 
effect upon us, not because they are glitter and noise, 
but because they are an appropriate expression of the 
power of men; of men stirred to the inmost depths; 
now ready to use both arm and brain, to do and ilare, 
with all the might that God has given to man, trained to 
it with all the skill of man's device. Just as appropriate 
as is of nature's power, when the leaves clap their hands 
in gladsome dance in the morning air, in the sunlight ; 
as when the oak bends in the rising storm ; as when the 
lightnings flash, the thunder rolls, as the resounding surf 
on the old ocean's shore. 

But, as in the moving column of the army, its strength 
is not in the individual effort, however bold and brave, 



FIFTY- FIRST REGIMFNT. 27 

but in the concentration of individual effort. So what is 
effected by this concentration, is the true glory of the 
soldier. 

The soldier leaves his home, all that he loves. There 
is no harder strain upon the heart, than when one in full 
life turns to part with that which is now his, which he 
might still keep if he wills it, but which he now, of set 
purpose, quits, with no assured hope that it will ever be 
his again. 

He gives up that individual freedom, which has been a 
great part of his happiness, for the crowded barrack or 
camp. He puts himself under the stern command of an- 
other, endures the drill, that wearisome preparation for 
that which is still more weary, the march, the guard duty, 
the. picket, which are all beset with disease, danger, and 
distress. 

Then he comes to meet his foe, and with him he must 
engage in a death grapple. 

That long stride for days and nights to reach the place, 
the sullen boom of the single gun in the early gray of 
the morning; the sharp crack of the rifle; the volley of 
musketry, and then the continuous roar, amid which 
comes the hurtling shell, as it falls with a crash into a 
rank, and the sharp sing of the ball that is dealing fast 
with all around ; the sharp sting, the sickening thud, and 
the jarring crash. 

The gathering of all the remaining energies to breast 
the stern onset, or for the rush to crown the crest of the 
death-dealing entrenchment ! 

The long nights and days of pain which no hand can 



28 FIRST ANXUAL REUNION. 

Stay, but which must be endured until nature triumphs 
or succumbs ! To fall helpless amid the burning forests; 
whose stealthy fires creep upon him, and suck out life 
with their hot breath ; to be taken captive to those foul 
places where life drained out in loathesome horror ; to 
meet and endure all these things voluntarily, is the glory 
of the soldier's manhood. But this is not the crowning 
glory of the soldiers of the Civil War ; not the crowning 
glory of the men of the Fifty-first Regiment of Pennsyl- 
vania Volunteers. 

It lay in the object for which all these things were 
done and suffered. It lay in that which was attained in 
the victory of the effort. 

In the established personality and sovereignty of our 
government; in the preserved nationality of our people, 
bequeathed to us by our fathers ; handed down to us by 
the heroes of the Revolution. 

What you did and what you suffered was in the line of 
duty. Were the results to stay with the mere overcom- 
ing force with force, as was done on this day eighteen 
years ago, when tlie two great armies met, which is here 
and now commemorated, they would be bygone like the 
sulpliurous clouds that rose from the guns on that fateful 
day ; like the marks of the struggle smoothed out by the 
clotliing verdure. 

This day was followed by the proclamation of freedom 
to the slave, that wonderful anomaly in our national life, 
but not by that alone, though that were great enough to 
signalize it. Those unruly Kjngues that inveigh against 
the personality of our (lovernment, those rude hands that 



FIFTY-FIRST REGIMEXT. sg 

were stretched forth to tear its sovereignty from its 
throne, those savage forces that .were gathered to break 
up its nationahty, were there and then stayed. Light 
broke for the opi)ressed by the way; but, more than all 
that, the current of the world's onward progress, pent 
and dammed awhile, flowed on in its beneficent way. 
This was the perfection of the work. This places in the 
unfading light of marvelous story, the deeds of the men 
of the Fifty-first regiment of Pennsylvania. 

The hope of the world is in the ideal personality and 
sovereignty of government ; in the ideal nationality of 
its peoples. Government is part of the economy of the 
world ; its vocation, the welfare of the people; its idea, 
a government of the people, by the people, for the 
people; its means of attainment, ideal personality, ideal 
sovereignty, free communal life, and ideal nationality; 
a personality that is sacred; sovereignty that brooks no 
opposing will ; free communal life that permits every one 
to dwell under his own vine and fig tree ; nationality as 
wide as the breadth of the borders of the land. The an- 
tagonists of these are centralization, imperialism, and 
States rights, which is the disintegration of nationality. 

Three thousand years before the birth of our Lord, 
the valleys of the Euphrates and the Tigris teemed with 
a population which, in wealth and civilization, has never 
been exceeded. 

The whole of Asia Minor, from the Aegean Sea to 
Mount Ararat, was crowded with cities such as have 
never since been built, whose people enjoyed a free com- 
munal life, that gave the utmost development to human 



JO FIRST ANNUAL REUNION. 

wishes. Babylon, Nineveh, Palmyra, Damascus, Tyre 
and Sidon, Jerusalem, Thebes — they are the synonyms 
in our minds of human greatness. 

The desolation of these lands began when the Assyrian 
came down from Nineveh to the Nile ; when his kingdom 
reposed on the Persian Gulf, the Caspian Sea, and the 
Mediterranean; came again when the Persian laid his 
chains in the waters of the Hellespond ; again, when the 
Macedonian strode from the fastness of his mountains to 
the furthest Indies. Imperial Rome spread her sway over 
them. I'he Arabian swept by the Euphrates and the sea. 
The Turanian, the Mongolian, the Turcoman, flooded 
them. 

On the southern shore of the Euxine, the port of 
Bythnia, on the break-up of the Persian empire, fell to 
Othman, the commander of a body of Turcomans, who 
had entered the service of the Sultan of Iconium. Push- 
ing through the unguarded passes of Mount Olympus, he 
attac-ked the Byzantine Empire, and he and his successors 
inherited its imperialism. Pushing across the Bosphorus, 
their power was scarcely stayed at the walls of Vienna. 
The Turcoman became master of Asia Minor, Syria, 
Egypt, Arabia, in fine, that wonderful agglomeration of 
nations known as Turkey in Europe and Turkey in Asia. 
In all these long centuries of wars, imperialism has over- 
come communal life, and tribute to the foreign potentate, 
more than the mere desolation of wars, has taken away 
the life-blood of the people. 

Notwitlistanding it has been said tliat war should be 
no more, in the last half of the nineteenth century, since 



FIFTY-FIRST REGIMENT ji 

the year 1 850, there have been the greatest conflicts known 
in the history of the world. CiviUzed nations now stand 
armed cap-a-pie. Universal military servitude has been 
established, and the hand of God's guidance in the wars 
is shown that they have all been directed to the establish- 
ment of govermental sovereignty and the gathering of 
the peoples under one nationality. The war of the 
Crimea, and later, the tremendous struggle in the Balkans, 
when Russia's people gathered around their Emperor and 
carried him into the war more than half unwilling, were 
the outgrowth of Slavonic nationality, to free them from 
the yoke of the Turcomans and gather their race beneath 
the double-headed imperial eagle of Russia. 

The Danish monarch had to give up his German-speak- 
ing people in Schleswig and Holstein. 

Italy, divided and despoiled since the days of imperial 
Rome, held under the Spaniard, the Austrian, the Bour- 
bon, breathed her first breath of nationality when Sol- 
ferino reddened her glacial morain. Austria laid down 
the iron crown of Lombardy and retired behind the Quad- 
rilateral when she was crushed at Sadowa. The dissolute 
Bourbon quitted his kingdom before the victorious legions 
of Garibaldi. The States of Italy, by their free suffrage, 
placed the crown of the kingdom of Italy upon the head 
of Victor Immanuel, the gallant. Rome became her 
capital and Italy became a nation, united and free, from 
the Alps to the Adriatic. 

With the crush of the armies at Sadowa ended the 
German confederacy. The German armies crossed the 
Rhine, gained the hills of Gravelotte, seized the French 



32 FIRST ANNUAL REUNION. 

armies at Sedan with their Emperor, besieged Metz, en- 
vironed Paris, and tlie German people, now a nation, 
placed the crown of the empire of Germany upon the 
head of Kaiser William, their commander-in-chief, while 
yet he had his headquarters in Versailles. Paris surren- 
dered. The German armies retired, carrying with them 
Alsace and Lorraine. France became a republic after a 
desperate struggle with the Commune. 

Stay but yet for a breath of time, and the Turcoman 
will cross the Bosphorus to his Bothnia. Not a trace of 
his footsteps will remain on the sands of Arabia. A na- 
tion will be gathered by the banks of the Euphrates, and 
Ararat, from his antediluvian height, will look down upon 
the Armenian, great, wise, and wealthy Syria will establish 
her kingdom, Jerusalem rebuild her walls, Greece look 
out upon the /Egean and the freed isles of the archipelago, 
and replant her colonies on the shores of Asia Minor. 

Time will not go back on his dial. 

At the close of the revolutionary war of our own 
country, crowned with the surrender of the British army 
at Yorktown, a proclamation issued disbanding the armies 
of the United States, after a struggle of eight long years; 
a struggle which has surrounded those who were engaged 
in it with a halo of glory, and set them up among the 
heroes of the world. Washington, in his farewell to the 
army, after "adverting to the enlarged prospects of hap- 
piness opened by the confirmation of national independ- 
ence and sovereignty, exhorts them to maintain the 
strongest attachment to the Union. He bade farewell 
to his officers at Fraund's Tavern, passing through a single 



FIFTY-FIRST REG IMF AT. jj 

corps of light infantry, stepping into a barge at White- 
hall, turned to them, took off his hat and waved them a 
silent adieu, and they watched him in silence until shut 
out from view by a point of the Battery." 

That was the end of the war of the revolution. Lib- 
erty was gained. It had yet to be maintained. Tlie 
struggle has gone on through three generations of men, 
culminating in the great civil war of the United States. 
Just that nationality, just that sovereignty upon which the 
father of our country congratulated his soldiers when he 
parted with them, just that union for which he bade them 
maintain the strongest attachment, was the question of 
the fearful contest eighty years afterwards. Mark the 
response of his people. At the close of this war, through 
the streets of the city that bears his beloved name, down 
the avenue that bears the name of our beloved State, past 
the chieftain who had led them to victory, not a single 
corps of light infantry, but two hundred thousand war- 
seariied veterans marched, bearing the tattered flags of 
an hundred battles. 

It is an old and trite saying that "eternal vigilance is 
the price of liberty." It is a common mistake, because 
we forget that life is an ever onward-moving thing, that, 
after gaining a material step, we think to rest at that, 
while, in fact, the end of every effort is the beginning of 
a new one. The result of every struggle is but a prepa- 
ration for a new one. The enemies of liberty are never 
eradicated. Like sin, they are always lying at the door. 
They crowd the pathway of every nation from its birth, 
ready to sting its feet on its chosen way, to tempt it ihto 



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by-paths, to beguile it into slumber, to fasten on it in un- 
wary moments, and to crush it into helplessness. 

Only entire wakefulness, only unceasing watchfulness, 
energies never relaxed, vigor unabated, will serve to keep 
the nation safe. 

"Thou, loo, sail on, O Ship of .State!. 
Sail on, O Union, strong and great ! 
Humanity, with all its fears, 
With all its hopes of future years. 
Is hanging breathless on thy fate. 
We know what master laid thy keel ! 
What workman wrought thy ribs of steel. 
Who made each mast, and sail, and rope. 
What anvils rang, what hammers beat. 
In what a forge and what a heat 
Were shaped tlie anchors of thy hope. 
Fear not each sudden sound and shock. 
'Tis of the wave, and not the rock. 

'Tis but the flapping of the sail, 

And not a rent made by the gale. 

In spite of rock and tempest's roar, 

In spite of false lights on the shore. 

Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea ! 

Our hearts, our hopes are all with thee. 

Our hearts, our ho}x;s, our prayers, our tears. 

Our faith, triumi)hant o'er our fears. 

Are all with thee ; are all with thee \ " 



FIF7 Y-FIRST REG/MEX7. 35 

After music by the band, George N. Corson, Esquire, 
was presented, and read tlie following : 

HEROIC FOE.U. 

One April morn, in the year of our Lord 

One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, 
Americans read at their breakfost board 

The stirring words of Abraham Lincoln : 
"I call for seventy-five thousand men 

To enforce the laws and save the nation !" 
And quick the people answered, there and then, 

We come for our nation's pledged salvation. 

Another morn, the clouds were darkening 

More and more, and the light of Freedom's sky 
Was dim, as millions now stood hearkening 

To old Father Abraham's thunder cry : 
"To arms! ye loyal sons of West and North, 

Our brothers of the South are mad for war ; 
Americans, from all the land come forth ; 

Come, ye freeman, five hundred thousand more." 

Then there beat the war-drum in every street, 

And rang the war-cry in every household. 
Back went the answer with liberty sweet 

To the bondsmen in treason's stronghold. 
And joyous to the President's mighty heart : 

"We are coming. Father Abraham, aye, 
Five hundred thousand more ; and we will start 

Freedom's battle-cry for every slave to-day." 



j6 FIRST ANXUAL EECNIOX. 

As State after State of the South went out, 

So State after State of the North proved true. 
Companies moved, reghiients formed, as the wild shout 

Rang out for Union and Liberty too. 
The Fifty-first Regiment bounded forth 

In this darkest hour of the nation's day. 
To fight this twin cause by the side of the North. 

And to liurl the rebel pretenders away. 

Ii was in the autumn of sixty-one ; 

Camp Curtin, Harrisburg, was drowned in rain, 
When the grand forward movement was begun, 

And tlioughts of war were a relief from pain. 
For constraint to noble souls is a hell — 

They are forever restless for the right ; 
The soldier seeks the sound of shot and shell. 

And longs to lead his comrades in the fight. 

They formed a camp at old Annapolis, 

Upon the banks of Susciuehanna's tide. 
And all honor to them whose fame with his 

Was to grow with time, they call it Burnside. 
Flartranft, Bell, and Schall, uniformed and snug 

With their ten Captains, to their tents invite us, 
Bolton, Bell, Allebaugh, Schall, Hassenplug, 

Taylor, Snyder, Linn, Pechin, and Titus. 

These were the school-boy days of the great school 
Of the war, when, to while away the time 

Between the hours of drill and ligorous rule. 

Games and jokes and songs made up a merry chime ; 



FIFTY-FIRST REG IMF XT. j;y 

And not the least in those days of camp-life, 
To ease the irk of mind and head and hand, 

Was the music that rose above all strife 

From the noble boj's in George Arnold's band. 

Amid the January rain and snow, 

In the eventful year of sixty-two. 
The men marched from their camp, and glad to go 

On "Cossack and Scout." But where ? no one knew ! 
But now the news ran up and down the ships, 

The boys all sang, glad with new ambition, 
"We are," with "hips, hurrahs," "hurrahs and hips," 

" We are of the Burnside Expedition." 

Thence followed Roanoke Island and Newbern, 

Camden, and the death of Colonel Bell 
At Antietam, where never to return, 

Thousands moved sternly forward and thousands fell. 
Ay, here Hartranft, wounded Bolton, and the boys, 

Like Lane S. Hart, who felt the rebel shot. 
Have made a name exceed the fame of Troy's, 

And Antietam Bridge a Monumental spot. 

Hunsicker, Coulston, Beaver, Somerlot, Marks, Davis, 

Herd, McDade, McMuUin, and Captain Bell, 
Private Lonsdale — all who helped to save us. 

And at Antietam or Fretlericksburg fell. 
Are names near and dear to you and us to-day. 

And in many a household there live those 
Around us who weep to think they must obey, 

The fate which gave these loved ones to our foes. 



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On the Rappahannock,. at Sulphur Springs, 

At Falmouth, and on the pontoons that bore 
To Fredericksburg — there like the ancient kings 

The Fifty-first stood foremost in the war. 
Steadfast from the ocean shore, at the East, 

Westward to red Mississippi's waters. 
On the weary march, at the frugal feast, 

Or amidst the hell and yell of slaughters. 

He who visits the Wilderness in years 

To be will seek the place where ix>or Kevm 
Fell bearing the colors aloft with cheers' 

Fur the good old flag — then flew to Heaven ; 
Where Moore, Fair, Bullman, Yerkes, Amnions, fell, 

Thatcher, Smith, and Murphy — names that live not 
On gilded historic page, but dwell 

In die hearfS of those who stood upon this spot. 

At Spottsylvania, where Akerman, 

Lynch, Lindsay, Bisbing, and Sterner went down ; 
At Cold Harbor, where nature's nobleman 

Gallant Edwin Schall received his golden crown ; 
Where Mills, Upright, Fizone, and Dunkel died. 

At Petersburg where Cornog and Lenhard, 
Fillman, and Davis, too, and Dignan vied 

With Fate to perish before the fierce petard ; 
At all the battles from Washington down 

To Vicksburg and around again to the sea, 
The Fifty-first has won its victor crown 

An<l shared the glory of a land made free. 



FlFTY-hlRST REGIMENT. 39 

Bright are her laurels and great her glory, 
Sacred the pages which record her fame, 

Long may they survive to tell their story, 
So free from any taint of vice or shame. 

Till round and full their course was run and done. 

As with the Ninth Corps and the mighty hosts 
Of the band of freemen who fought and won 

The victory— all their soldiers at their posts- 
Petersburg and Richmond yielded their flag — 

And as we all sang praises to the Lord, 
Up to the Northern vale and mountain crag, 

Went forth the shout " the Union is restored." 

The regiment, with its banners battle-scarred. 

Its tattered flags and trophies stained with gore. 
Its men starved, wounded, legless, armless, marred, 

Returned— the wrecks and remnants of the war- 
To lay aside the sword and bayonet. 

To seal the roster as a sacred tome. 
And bidding the war sun forever set. 

Fall into the arms of the loved ones home. 

But where are they, the fallen ones? the brave 

And noble men who died on hostile field. 
Or pined away in prison walls to save 

Our nation's life, or were'compelled to yield 
Their souls to Heaven with no one near to hear 

Their prayers as they fell to sodden on the sod. 
Where are they? Borne on that Seraphic bier. 

Which bears, unquestioned, heroic men to God. 



40 FIRST AXXL'AL REUNION. 

Yovi who have heard brave Reno's ringing voice, 

.Who have followetl Burnside in the fight, 
Have trained with steady Hartranft, whose choice 

And pride you were, as on the left or right, 
Or far away from him and us you fought ; 

You, the survivors of this noble band ; 
We speak your praise with awe-inspiring thought. 

And pray Heaven to bless you and our native land. 

On motion, a vote of thanks was tendered to Captain 
J. Merrill Linn, of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, for his ora- 
tion, and Hon. George N. Corson, of Norristown, Penn- 
sylvania, for his poem. Also a vote of thanks to Major 
Lane S. Hart, of Harrisburg, for his kind and liberal 
offer to print, without cost, in pamphlet form, the pro- 
ceedings of "The Society of the Fifty-first Regiment, 
Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers," at their first annual 
reunion ; to Zook Post, No. 1 1 , for the use of their room ; 
to the Humane Fire Engine Company No i, for the use 
of their flags, and to the citizens of Norristown for their 

liberal aid. 

William J. Bolton, 

President. 
Edw.\rd Schall, 

Secretary. 



FIFTY-FIRST REGIMEXT. 



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COMRADES PRESENT. 

Major General John F. Hartranft, . . Philadelphia, fa. 
Major General William J. Bolton, . . Norristown, Pa. 

Major Joseph K. Bolton, Harrisburg, Pa, 

Adjutant Jacob H. Santo, Harrisburg, Pa. 

Sergeant Major Levi W. Shingle, No. 

255 12th street, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Commissary Sergeant Levi Bolton, •, . Norristown, Pa. 

Company "A." 
Captain John H, Coulston, . . Wilmington, Del. 
First Lieut. Benj. P. Thompson, Harrisburg, Pa. 
Second Lieut. Edward L. Evans, Norristown, Pa. 
First Sergt. Osman Ortlip, . . . Upper Merion, Pa. 



Sergeant Isaac E. Fillman, 
Sergeant Washington Smith, 
Corporal Jesse Herbster, . 
" George S. Buzzard, 
" Hiram C. Lysinger, 
" Amandus Garges, 
" John S. Jones, . . 
" Daniel Lare, . . 
Private, Baker, George B., 
" Bolton, James, . . 
" Clair, John, . . . 
" Doud, Benjamin F., 
" Divers, Joseph T., 
" Dehaven, Isaac, . 
" Freas, Samuel H., 



Norristown, Pa. 

Royer's Ford, Pa. 

Norristown, Pa. 

Colman, Pa, 

Schuylkill, Pa. 

Norristown, Pa. 
. Norristown, Pa. 

Norristown, Pa. 

Conshohocken, Pa. 

Norristown, Pa. 

Norristown, Pa. 

Norristown, Pa. 

Reading, Pa. 

Norristown, Pa. 
, Norristown, Pa. 



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Private, Gilbert, Theodore, 

" Goodwin, Jonathan, 

" HaUman, Edward, 
* 

" Henniss, John, . . 

'* Hayberry, Charles, 

" Irwin, Isaac, M. D., 

'' Kellichner, Edwin, 

" Lare, Albanus, . . 

" McCombs, Samuel, 

" McKane, William, 

" Parvin, Ephraim, . 

" Toy, Charles, . . 

" Winters, Enos, . . 

" Welsh, John, . . . 

" Weber, Jonathan, . 

" Widger, George, . 

" Widger, Andrew, . 



. Philadelphia, Pa. 

. Norristown, Pa. 

. Plymouth Meeting, Pa. 

. Plymouth Meeting, Pa. 

. Plymouth Meeting, Pa. 

. Norristown, Pa. 

. Conshohocken, Pa. 

. Hickorytown, Pa. 

. Norristown, Pa. 

. Manayunk, Pa. 

. Conshohocken, Pa, 

. Montgomeryville, Pa. 

. Norristown, Pa. 

. Norristown, Pa. 

. Norristown, Pa. 

. Norristown, Pa. 

. Philadelphia, Pa. 



Company "^." 
First Lieut. John Gentner, . . , Easton, Pa. 
Corporal Matthew Delaney, . . Easton, Pa. 
Private Conrad Schwoerer, No. 

6, Market street, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Company ' 
Captain William Y . Thomas, . 
First Lieut. George H. Smith, 
Sergt. Peter Undercoffler, . . 

" William R. Gilbert, 
Corporal J. Calvin Umstead, . 



C." 

. Manayunk, Pa. 
. Harrisburg, Pa. 
. Collegeville, Pa. 
Norristown, Pa. 
. Royers Ford, Pa. 



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Corporal Andrew J. Read, 
" Hugh M. Lynch, 
" Benjamin R. Sill, 
"■ Hugh McClain, 

Private, Cook, John J., . 
'• Detwiler, Joseph, 
" Fizone, Jacob, 

Fox, William H. R 
** Fox, Charles R., 
" Fillman, Oliver A 
" Gunn, William, 
" Johnson, John, . 
" McDade, Patrick, 
" Pickup, George, No. 

E. Norris street 
" Peters, Michael, 
" Rogan, Patrick, 
" Springer, John M., 
'• Stout, George, . 
'• Sullivan, PatricK, 
" Temperly, Thomas 
" White, Charles, . 
" Wood, Henry P., 
«' Yerger, Mark L., 
" Undercoffler, Henry, 



Pittsburgh, Pa. 
Phcenixville, Pa. 
Norristown, Pa. 
Norristown, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Roxborough, Pa. 
Norristown, Pa. 
Norristown, Pa. 
Norristown, Pa. 
Norristown, Pa'. 
Phcenixville, Pa. 
Phoenixville, Pa. 
Norristown, Pa. 



5" 



Philadelphia, Pa. 
Norristown, Pa. 
Swedesburg, Pa. 
Norristown, Pa. 
Phoenixville, Pa. 
Norristown, Pa, 
Phoenixville, Pa. 
Norristown, Pa. 
Norristown, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
CoUegeville, Pa. 



Company " X>." 

Captain Edward Schall, .... Norristown, Pa. 
Captain William W. Owens, 
First Lieut. John Gilligan, . 



. Norristown, Pa. 
Norristown, Pa. 



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Second Lieut. Jonathan Swallow, Norristown, Pa. 
Sergeant William D. Jenkins, . Norristown, Pa. 

" John McNulty, . . . Conshohocken, Pa. 

" Walter M. Thompson, . Phcenixville, Pa. 
Penrose W.Clair, . , . Blue Bell, Pa. 
Corporal John L. McCoy, . . Norristown, Pa. 

" Andrew Fair, .... Norristown, Pa. 

" Nicholas Murphy, . , . Norristown, Pa. 

" Albert List, .... Lewisburg, Pa. 

" John Sutch, .... Roxborough, Pa. 
Private, Beswick, Charles, . . . Norristown, Pa. 

" Cornog, Addison, . . . Norristown, Pa. 

" Dunbar, Thomas, . . . Norristown, Pa. 

" Diamond, Patrick, . . Norristown, Pa. 

" Earl, John, Conshohocken, Pa. 

" Fizone, Mordecai, . . Norristown, Pa. 

" Fleck, John R., ... Norristown, Pa. 

" Geyer, John R., ... Norristown, Pa. 

" Lukens, EUwood, . . . Norristown, Pa. 

" Lysinger, Charles, . . Norristown, Pa. 

" Montgomery, Thomas J., Schuylkill Tails, Pa. 

" McDade, William, . , Norristown, Pa. 

" McDade, Samuel, . . . Norristown, Pa. 

" McManamy, William, . Norristown, Pa. 

" Standenmayer, Jacob, 

care C. and P. R. R., Pittsburgh, Pa. 

" Sutch, Henry, .... Collegeville, Pa. 

" Vanfossen, Hiram, . . Norristown, Pa. 

" Widger, Charles, . . . Norristown, Pa. 

" Yost, Daniel B., ... Norristown, Pa. 



FIFT 1 '-FIRST RE GIMEXT. 
Company " ^." 
Second Lieut. Martin L. Schock, New Berlin, Pa. 
Sergt. E. G. Maize, No. 8i 8 Chest- 
nut street, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Musician Joseph A. Logan, . . Milton, Pa. 



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Company " 

Captain Jacob P. Brooke, 
Second Lieut. Henry Jacobs, . 
First Sergt. William B. Hart, . 
Sergt. Jacob W. Reed, . 
Corporal Silas Kulp, .... 
«' Thomas B. Yerger, . 
" Henry C. Hughes, . 
ISIusician William C. Hansell, 

"■ Lyle Franklin, . . . 

Private, Baird, James S. . . 

'' Daub, George W., . 

" Daub, Samuel G., . . 

" Earl, Alexander D., . 

<' Freas, Daniel, . . 

Hansell, George Y., . 

Holmes, George W., 

" Johns, Edwin M., . . 

Kremer, Frederick, 
" Lewis, William H., , 
McClennan, Samuel, 
McCarter, Samuel, 
McFadden, Francis, 



. Lewisburg, Pa. 

Norristown, Pa. 

Harrisburg, Pa. 
. Lansdale, Pa. 
. Green Lane, Pa. 
. Norristown, Pa. 
. Norristown, Pa. 
. Camden, N. J. 
. Bridgeport, Pa. 
. Norristown, Pa. 
, Norristown, Pa. 

. Norristown, Pa. 

. Philadelphia, Pa. 

, Conshohocken, Pa. 

. Washington, D. C. 

, Norristown, Pa. 

. Norristown, Pa. 
Norristown, Pa. 

. Norristown, Pa. 

. Norristown, Pa. 
Norristown, Pa. 

. Norristown, Pa. 



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Private, Reed, Edwin M., No. 

420 North Second St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
" Taylor, Samuel, . . . Norristown, Pa. 
" Thompson, Charles, . Norristown, Pa. 
" Workeizer, William, . . Norristown, Pa. 

Company " G." 
Captain William H. Blair, . . . Bellefonte, Pa. 

Company " ZT." 
Captain J. Merfill Linn, .... Lewisburg, Pa. 
First Lieut. William F. Campbell, Allenwood, Pa. 
Sergt. Daniel M. Wetzel, . . . Grand Rapids, Mich 
Private Anthony Weisenbach, . Norristown, Pa. 

Company " /." 
Captain George R. Pechin, . . . Norristown, Pa. 
First Lieut. George Schall, 
" Lewis Patterson 
First Sergt. George Carney, 
Sergeant William Pope, 
" James Cameron, 
" Andrew S. Leedom, 



Corporal John M. Engle, 
" James Y. Shainline 

Musician James Chase, . 

Private, Cornog, Thomas, 
" Detterline, Joseph, 
" Edwards, Samuel, 
" Glisson, George W 
" Powers, Charles, 
" Pluck, Jacob, . 



Norristown, Pa. 
Swedeland, Pa. 
Norristown, Pa. 
Upper Merion. 
Upper Merion. 
Conshohocken, Pa. 
West Conshohocken. 
Norristown, Pa. 
Norristown, Pa. 
Upper Merion, Pa. 
Norristown, Pa. 

, Pa. 

Norristown, Pa. 
Norristown, Pa. 
Norristown, Pa. 



flflY-FIRSl REG/MEyi. 

Company " A". ' 

Private, Crites, William H., , . Huntingdon, Pa. 
" Dittler, John C, ... Easton, Pa. 



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